Please point out to me where Bush did anything to stop research on adult stem cells, such as those mentioned in TFA. If anything, he (though for the wrong reasons) stopped work on the less promising form of stem cell research. As someone else has already said in this thread, "I would certainly prefer a treatment made with my own cells, with my own DNA over one made from some embryo."
I don't think the problem is Cisco's side supporting both the old and the new, but that when the old stuff transmits, it can only go at the slow speeds, and nothing else can go fast during that time.
I hope you already at least have been using a surge suppressor on the phone line going to your modem. If it's really that bad, maybe you should find some kind of fiber-optic bridge between your modem and the rest of your network? I'm sure you could find some old 100BASE-FX adapters on ebay. (Better get a few spares for the modem end, I guess.)
Gollum: We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious phosphorous. They stole it from us.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious phosphorous without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
This. Tandy copied the PCjr CGA modes, and put them into a computer that didn't suck. (Or at least didn't suck compared to what you could get when they were new.)
My TRS-80 floppy drives would do that, too. If you turned something off (I think it was the drive itself) with the door closed, the drive light would flash for a moment, and a small EMP would zap whatever was under the disk head.
I think the reference to BO in this particular article is relevant. It also mentions the edge-online article. http://blog.hardcoregaming101....
I'm getting a strong feeling of all these things happening at the same time. BO had a few innovations (apparently pioneering the health bar), but it was no genesis of JRPG on its own. Also, BO was (IIRC) a 3D-maze-view game like Wizardry, while JRPGs generally went the Ultima way with a top-down map view, though I remember that Phantasy Star I had a top-down overworld, but a 3D-maze-view underworld.
Also note how Wizardry and Ultima came out at roughly the same time. Now my memories of the time around 1980 (my high school days) are a bit fuzzy, but among the nerdy types D&D was popular, and everyone with access to a computer wanted to figure out how to make it work on a computer. I sure know I did. But having limited RAM (16K being pretty standard in 1980, 48K-64K a year or two later), and limited storage (floppy disk drives were not cheap) were major limitations.
My gut feeling is that a similar thing was happening in Japan because of paper and dice RPGs, as well as the first wave of importing Wizardry and Ultima before they were officially released in Japan. There was this cool new type of game (both paper and dice as well as computer), and by 1983, everybody wanted to do it.
Admittedly this seems to have derived from a quote from the guy himself. Wizardry was mentioned, but with no acknowledgement that it was in Japan. On the other hand, I can't quickly find any dates on when Wizardry hit Japan, other than it had a mediocre translation.
“Next I looked at what kind of games were doing well in Japan,” he says. “It was immediately obvious to me that the core difference between the two markets was that there were no computer role-playing games in Japan. The US had Ultima and Wizardry. But there were no such adventures in Japan. I thought, I could do that.”
Perhaps part of the problem was that his lack of understanding the language made it harder to see what was already there. A quick look at that blog implies that a lot of those came out in 1983, so it was already starting to happen at the same time he was working on BO. It seems he was just there at the right time.
The idea was that the 68K normally only used the memory bus every other cycle, so really those bus cycles would have been mostly wasted. As a bonus, the video hardware performed DRAM refresh.
Also, EVERYTHING means even across international boundaries. Hollywood doesn't make anything these days to even inspire me to torrent it, much less go to a movie theater full of noisy people, cell phones, and screaming babies. Europe, Japan, Bollywood, EVERYTHING needs to be available to ANYBODY, ANY TIME. It needs to be available at the same time, not months later, even if that means only getting it in the original language with no subtitles.
Also, LLVM allows the XCode IDE to link in portions of the compiler, such as syntax analysis. GCC does not allow this. GPL3 doesn't even need to be the problem.
RMS seems to not be willing to consider that GPL is the cause of this situation that he has observed. Given that RMS is unwilling to admit that GPL has flaws, I hardly see this as shocking or surprising.
This only matters if you redistribute those statically-linked binaries. You can statically link your own code to GPL code all day without being forced to release it or license it as GPL, as long as you don't distribute binaries containing the GPL code. It's just not normally useful to do so.
When it becomes useful is for, say, a device to test widgets after you manufacture them, and you need to use some GPL code to perform the test. The rest of the world doesn't need to use your widget tester, so you don't need to distribute its binaries, and thus the GPL virus doesn't kick in.
The problem is that to make an IDE with certain features like incremental compilation and good syntax awareness, your compiler really does need to be linked as though it were a library.
GCC's GPL license doesn't allow this, and LLVM's BSD-like license does. GCC would need to be LGPL licensed to allow this without the entire IDE being virally forced into GPL licensing. Apple doesn't want XCode to be GPL, therefore they switched to LLVM.
RMS doesn't like LGPL and doesn't want GCC to be LGPL licensed. So it's an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
The difference between an EV battery and propane tank is that if the propane tank gets dented, it doesn't cost $8000 to replace it. And the battery weighs a bit more, too.
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Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science.
Please point out to me where Bush did anything to stop research on adult stem cells, such as those mentioned in TFA. If anything, he (though for the wrong reasons) stopped work on the less promising form of stem cell research. As someone else has already said in this thread, "I would certainly prefer a treatment made with my own cells, with my own DNA over one made from some embryo."
I don't think the problem is Cisco's side supporting both the old and the new, but that when the old stuff transmits, it can only go at the slow speeds, and nothing else can go fast during that time.
I hope you already at least have been using a surge suppressor on the phone line going to your modem. If it's really that bad, maybe you should find some kind of fiber-optic bridge between your modem and the rest of your network? I'm sure you could find some old 100BASE-FX adapters on ebay. (Better get a few spares for the modem end, I guess.)
Gollum: We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious phosphorous. They stole it from us.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious phosphorous without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
This. Tandy copied the PCjr CGA modes, and put them into a computer that didn't suck. (Or at least didn't suck compared to what you could get when they were new.)
My TRS-80 floppy drives would do that, too. If you turned something off (I think it was the drive itself) with the door closed, the drive light would flash for a moment, and a small EMP would zap whatever was under the disk head.
"Her" is as realistic about AI as "Gravity" is realistic about orbital mechanics.
I think the reference to BO in this particular article is relevant. It also mentions the edge-online article. http://blog.hardcoregaming101....
I'm getting a strong feeling of all these things happening at the same time. BO had a few innovations (apparently pioneering the health bar), but it was no genesis of JRPG on its own. Also, BO was (IIRC) a 3D-maze-view game like Wizardry, while JRPGs generally went the Ultima way with a top-down map view, though I remember that Phantasy Star I had a top-down overworld, but a 3D-maze-view underworld.
Also note how Wizardry and Ultima came out at roughly the same time. Now my memories of the time around 1980 (my high school days) are a bit fuzzy, but among the nerdy types D&D was popular, and everyone with access to a computer wanted to figure out how to make it work on a computer. I sure know I did. But having limited RAM (16K being pretty standard in 1980, 48K-64K a year or two later), and limited storage (floppy disk drives were not cheap) were major limitations.
My gut feeling is that a similar thing was happening in Japan because of paper and dice RPGs, as well as the first wave of importing Wizardry and Ultima before they were officially released in Japan. There was this cool new type of game (both paper and dice as well as computer), and by 1983, everybody wanted to do it.
Admittedly this seems to have derived from a quote from the guy himself. Wizardry was mentioned, but with no acknowledgement that it was in Japan. On the other hand, I can't quickly find any dates on when Wizardry hit Japan, other than it had a mediocre translation.
“Next I looked at what kind of games were doing well in Japan,” he says. “It was immediately obvious to me that the core difference between the two markets was that there were no computer role-playing games in Japan. The US had Ultima and Wizardry. But there were no such adventures in Japan. I thought, I could do that.”
Perhaps part of the problem was that his lack of understanding the language made it harder to see what was already there. A quick look at that blog implies that a lot of those came out in 1983, so it was already starting to happen at the same time he was working on BO. It seems he was just there at the right time.
He had acquired the licensing rights to Tetris on consoles.
My point is that I already get this thanks to the bit torrents.
If I read TFS right, this rover failed before even reaching the first night. So it's had 7/24 sunlight since landing.
Wow, read that other link. Apparently it was much more complicated than I had ever heard of before.
The idea was that the 68K normally only used the memory bus every other cycle, so really those bus cycles would have been mostly wasted. As a bonus, the video hardware performed DRAM refresh.
Also, Disney films would be "shelved" on a regular basis. Want to watch Peter Pan again? Oh, sorry, that's not available this year.
Also, EVERYTHING means even across international boundaries. Hollywood doesn't make anything these days to even inspire me to torrent it, much less go to a movie theater full of noisy people, cell phones, and screaming babies. Europe, Japan, Bollywood, EVERYTHING needs to be available to ANYBODY, ANY TIME. It needs to be available at the same time, not months later, even if that means only getting it in the original language with no subtitles.
Also, LLVM allows the XCode IDE to link in portions of the compiler, such as syntax analysis. GCC does not allow this. GPL3 doesn't even need to be the problem.
RMS seems to not be willing to consider that GPL is the cause of this situation that he has observed. Given that RMS is unwilling to admit that GPL has flaws, I hardly see this as shocking or surprising.
This only matters if you redistribute those statically-linked binaries. You can statically link your own code to GPL code all day without being forced to release it or license it as GPL, as long as you don't distribute binaries containing the GPL code. It's just not normally useful to do so.
When it becomes useful is for, say, a device to test widgets after you manufacture them, and you need to use some GPL code to perform the test. The rest of the world doesn't need to use your widget tester, so you don't need to distribute its binaries, and thus the GPL virus doesn't kick in.
The problem is that to make an IDE with certain features like incremental compilation and good syntax awareness, your compiler really does need to be linked as though it were a library.
GCC's GPL license doesn't allow this, and LLVM's BSD-like license does. GCC would need to be LGPL licensed to allow this without the entire IDE being virally forced into GPL licensing. Apple doesn't want XCode to be GPL, therefore they switched to LLVM.
RMS doesn't like LGPL and doesn't want GCC to be LGPL licensed. So it's an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.
Except that these are nesting bees, not honeybees.
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
It's not a "whole solution" unless you can go off the grid. Like at night.
The difference between an EV battery and propane tank is that if the propane tank gets dented, it doesn't cost $8000 to replace it. And the battery weighs a bit more, too.